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Contents
Information requests
1Improving content on US states
Introduction
2Introduction to photography in California
The arrival of the masses
3Early photographers and studios of California
4Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855)
5George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
6Arnold Genthe: Chinatown
7Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco
Locations
8California: San Francisco: Chinatown
9California: Cliff House
10California: Los Angeles
11California: Point Lobos
12California: Yosemite Valley
13California: Yosemite: Yosemite Valley and the Merced River
14California: Yosemite: Glacier Point
Prisons
15Eadweard Muybridge: State Prison at San Quentin (published October 1873)
The Great Outdoors
16Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA)
17Carleton Eugene Watkins: California, Mt. Shasta
18Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal.
19Charles Leander Weed: California (taken 1864-1865)
20Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad
21Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma
22I.W. Taber: [Logging and transportation of "World's Fair Big Tree, Mammoth Forest, California"]
23Seth Kinman: California hunter (1815-1888)
24Rudolph D'Heureuse: The Mojave Road
Transportation
25Eadweard Muybridge: California Dry Dock, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
Capturing movement
26Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments
San Francisco Earthquake (1868)
27Earthquake: San Francisco (1868)
San Francisco advertising album (1880)
28I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880)
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906)
29USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906
30USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers
Pictorialism in California
31William Dassonville: Trees
32Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes
Ansel Adams and the American perception of sublime nature
33Ansel Adams and Straight landscape photography
34Ansel Adams: Yosemite
35Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946)
36Ansel Adams: Hills Brothers Coffee Can
37Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
38Edward Weston: Point Lobos
39Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes
40Edward Weston: Trees
The Great Depression
41Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
Internment in California
42Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War
Street photography
43Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography
44Max Yavno: California
Architecture
45Julius Shulman: Architecture
46Richard Misrach: San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge
Ed Ruscha and the Artist's book
47Ed Ruscha: Self-published books
48Ed Ruscha: Royal Road Test (1967)
49Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip (1971)
50Ed Ruscha: Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles (1967)
Interpretations of landscape
51Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974)
52Robbert Flick: Trajectories
Aerial photography of California
53William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia
54David Maisel: Oblivion
Contemporary culture
55Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture
56Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home
57Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers
58Norma Quintana: Forage from Fire (2017-2020)
Photographers
A & A Lightning Viewing Co., Frank G. Abell (1844-1910), Abell & Priest, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), S.M. Adams, Alfred S. Addis, Addis & Koch, Allen, American View Co., H. Anderson, D.E. Appleton & Co., Cyrus M. Armstrong, J. Asher, Atwater & Garrison, Lina Auger, J.E. Bacon, Jesse H. Baker, C.M. Baldwin, John E.D. Baldwin, G. Ball, Lewis Baltz (1945-2014), A.W. Barker, Barkhaus's Book Store, Barnette, Lewis N. Barney, Bartley & Fell, Baumgardt Publishing Co., J. Bawden, B. Bayley, Bayley & Cramer, Bearden, Richard Behrendts, Robert Belcher, John Bell, W.A. Bell, Edgar Bergen, B.W. Berry Co., Jennie C Best, Raymond Best, Betancue, G.S. Betterley, W. Beuthel, E.L. Bickford, W.C. Billington, J.P. Blanchard, Robert Bloomberg, Elias A. Bonine (1843-1916), R.A. Bonnell,, A.H. Bosworth, F.E. Bosworth, George F. Bouquet, D.S. Boydston, Julius T. Boysen, H.W. Bradley, Bradley & Rulofson, Lucia Brann, Henry Bratt, J.G. Brayton, J.C. Brewster, Philip Brigandi (1873-1945), H. Brince, A.E. Brinkerhoff, Brown, T.A. Brown, W. Brown, Brown & Edwards, W.B. Bryan, Burnett & Ercanbrack, G.R. Bushnell, E.P. Butler, W.B. Byram, William Byrd, California Art Photo Co., California Camera Artists, Inc., California Laboratory Supply Co., California Stereoscopic View Co., A.O. Carpenter, James S. Chapman, Chesebro, George Clark, C. Clawson, Willis A. Clinch, J.L. Clinton, Fayette J. Clute, David Cobb, I.T. Coffin, Coffin & Jacobs, Charles T. Collier (1853-1934), Conklin & Co., F.A. Cook, J.J. Cook, Frederick C. Coombs (1803-1874), Cottage Gallery, Rose Cotton, Walter S. Cotton, Craftsmen's Guild, C.L. Cramer, Crandall, E.L. Crawford, Charles C. Curtis, Rudolph D'Heureuse, E.M. Davidson, N.R. Davidson, Davis, Davis Bros., Davis Machine Shop, W. Delavan, Oliver Denny, Samuel DeVergilio, L. Dowe (1838-1919), Jos. H. Downing, Downing, Rea & Rauscher, A.M. Dunham, Dunham & Lathrop, F. Durgan, Eclipse Photo Car, Ecstacy Series, Lindley Eddy, Alexander Edouart, Edouart & Cobb, Elite Studio, Lemuel S. Ellis, Ellis & Son, Oliver Enders, A.W. Ericson, James W. Erwin, A.J. Everett, Gustavus Fagersteen (1829-1889), Gustavus Fagersteen (1829-1889), E.N. Fairchild, George Robinson Fardon (1807-1886), Fellows, Fellows Studio, C.P. Fessenden, Richard Finney, Herbert R. Fitch, G.A. Flach, A.P. Flaglor, Flaglor & Durose, D.P. Flanders (1840-1878), Flanders & Godfrey, W.H. Fletcher, Franklin J. Flocks, Camillus S. Fly (1849-1901), Martin Folb, James M. Ford, O. Foss, Foss & Hickox, A. Frese, E.S. Frost, Garden City Photo Co., B.L. Gardner, Geo. D. Gardner, T. Garner, William A. Garnett (1916-2006), Edwin Garrett, Arnold Genthe (1869-1942), Charles Gentile, Luther Gerlach, J.Z. Gilbert, W.M. Godfrey, Golden Gate Series, A.C. Golsch, G.E. Gould, Gove & Allen, John Grady, Katy Grannan, M.H. Grant, S.F. Graves, E. Graybiel, Griffiths & Samson, F. Gruber, John Gutmann (1905-1998), Johan Hagemeyer (1884-1962), H.H. Halsey, Halsey & Coffin, Charles F. Hamilton, Hamilton & Shew, C.H. Hammerton, Hanson, Hardesty & Armstrong, W. Harris, Alfred Hart (1816-1908), Hathaway, A.L. Hawes, E.S. Hays, E.J. Hayward, Hayward & Muzzall, M.M. Hazeltine (1827-1903), J.H. Heering, L.H. Heller (1839-1928), Hemingway & Holmes, Dr. Melvin Henningson, Anthony Hernandez (1947-), A.A. Hickox, E.R. Higgins, J.B. Higinbotham, F.M. Hill, Hill & Yard, Hirsch, Kahn, & Co., J.R. Hodson, Holmes, Dennis Hopper (1936-2010), Reverend J.W. Hough, J.S. Howard, B.F. Howland, Wm. B. Ingersoll, International View Co., The International View Co., Frederic E. Ives (1856-1937), J.W.H., B.D. Jackson, James M. Jacobs, G.W. James, Don Jim, A.P. Johnson, C.E. Johnson, C.W.J. Johnson, Clinton Johnson, Edward E. Johnson, George H. Johnson, Johnson Bros., R.A. Jones, J. Joslin, D.R. Judkins, Judkins & Hammor, Kemp & Vance, R.A. Kerber, C. Kint, Gene Kirksey, N.M. Klain, E.A. Kusel, Frank Kuykendall, O.V. Lange (1853-1913), Lange & Newth, E.C. LaRue, Alma Lavenson (1897-1989), George R. Lawrence (1868-1938), Lawrence & Houseworth, J.R. Leavenworth, W.S. Lewis, Ralph Lidell, J.M. Lingfelter, Harold Lloyd, Los Angeles Art Co., Los Angeles Stereoscopic View Co., R.N. Loucks, S.J. Lovewell, Fred Lyon, MacDonald & Dowe, J.R. Mains, Mains & Grant, Mains & Shippy, Mains & Von Hasseln, Mike Mandel (1950-), F.H. Maude, Oscar Maurer (1871-1965), Professor May, Roger May, Chris McCaw (1971-), A.J. McDonald, T.B. McGinley, S.C. McIntyre, S.P. McIntyre, C.A. McMullen, J.M. Miller, Rupert Miller, C.H. Mills, Ella M. Morris, George D. Morse, Jim Murray, E.E. Murray & Co., Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), Muzzall, Nelson & Bailey, Enno Nesemann, B.B. Netner, E.W. Newth, Nichols, Norton & Co., Charles B. Noe, Nokes, Leda & Dana, T.G. Norton, O.K. Studio, H. Olsen, E.D. Ormsby, C. Osbon, Charles R. Osborn, E.A. Ostlund, Dan Owen, The Pacific Photo Studio, Pacific Stereoscopic Photo Co., E.T. Palmer, Pan American Publishing Co., Parker, J.C. Parker, Parker , Parker & Parker, Rondal Partridge (1917-2015), Lee Passmore, Daniel R. Payne, Henry T. Payne, Laura Payne, Payne, Stanton & Co., Henry Greenwood Peabody (1855-1951), O.C. Percival, A.J. Perkins, Perkins & Foss, Owen Phairis, The Photographic Palace, Pickett & Everett, Charles C Pierce, E.W. Pierce, Pierce & Blanchard, Piggott & Shaw, Arthur Clarence Pillsbury (1870-1946), Susan Pinsky, Charles Piper, Plummer & Haelsig, Andrew Price, Putnam & Valentine, Norma Quintana, Radex Co., Raffaelli, Stephen Randall, Michael Rauner, A.T. Rauthrauff, Raymond, T.L. Rea, W.J. Rea, Geo. W. Reed, M.A. Reese, J.J. Reilly (1839-1894), Reilly & Hazeltine, Reilly & Ormsby, Reilly & Spooner, J.R. Renner, E. Reseman, Frank M. Reynolds, N.L. Ridderhof, M. Rieder, Harry Franz Rile, A.H. Rogers, F.H. Rogers, G.L. Rose, George L. Ross, Ross & Ormsby, George H. Rothrock (1843-1924), William Rulofson (1826-1878), Edward Ruscha (1937-), Sacramento Gallery, Z. Sakata, San Jose Historical Museum, John & Valeria Sardy, M. Sarver, Rudolph Schiller, H. Schoene, Mathieu Schramm, F.G. Schumacher, J.C. Scripture, S. Selleck, J.A. Sherriff, J. Shew, William Shew (1820-1903), A.L. Sibley, A.S. Silveira, Louis H. Smaus, J.G. Smith, W.S. Smith, Smith & Perkins, Snow & Roos, Chas. Sonnichsen, John P. Soule (1828-1904), T. Sourisseau, Dr. W.F. Southard, Southern California Fine Art Co., Mary Spesert, J. Pitcher Spooner, The Sportsmen's Club, Stanford University Museum of Art, Wyland Stanley, T.E. Stanton, David Starkman, Joseph B. Starkweather, Starr & Johnson, S.S. Stearns, The Stereoscopium Co., L.J. Stinson, Stockton Art Gallery, George E. Stone, Alfred M. Stringfield, J.D. Strong, R. Strong, William M. Stuart, S.M. Sturgis, J.K. Sutterley & Co., Sutterley Bros., Charles Swedlund, Howard R. Sweezey, Pauline Sweezey, I.W. Taber (1830-1912), R.L. Tabor, J. Taylor, Terrill, H. Thompson, Wm. Thunen, Tip-Top Photo Co., J.A. Todd, M.M. Treadwell, A.R. Treat, Treat & Grant, J.H. Turney & Co., W.N. Tuttle, Tuttle & Lee, O.E. Tyler, Universal Stereoscopic View Co., W.A. Vale, James E. Van Court, Robert H. Vance (1825-1876), A.C. Varela, Hector W. Vaughan, Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916), Otto Walasek, Walker & Fagersteen, Jerry Walter, C.P. Warden, Warner, Roger Warren, W.E. Warren & Son, Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), C.L. Weed (1824-1903), Brett Weston (1911-1993), Edward Weston (1886-1958), H.E. Whirry, J.R. Wilding, Wise & Prindle, Mrs. E.W. Withington, Frank E. Wolfe, S.A. Wolfe, Valentin Wolfenstein, R.E. Wood, E.A. Woodard, A. Woods, D.H. Woods, R.B. Woodward, Polly Wray, Max Yavno (1911-1985), Zephyr Photographic Studio, Ray Zone
     
Contents     
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Information requests
1Improving content on US states
Introduction
2Introduction to photography in California
The arrival of the masses
3Early photographers and studios of California
4Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855)
5George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
6Arnold Genthe: Chinatown
7Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco
Locations
8California: San Francisco: Chinatown
9California: Cliff House
10California: Los Angeles
11California: Point Lobos
12California: Yosemite Valley
13California: Yosemite: Yosemite Valley and the Merced River
14California: Yosemite: Glacier Point
Prisons
15Eadweard Muybridge: State Prison at San Quentin (published October 1873)
The Great Outdoors
16Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA)
17Carleton Eugene Watkins: California, Mt. Shasta
18Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal.
19Charles Leander Weed: California (taken 1864-1865)
20Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad
21Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma
22I.W. Taber: [Logging and transportation of "World's Fair Big Tree, Mammoth Forest, California"]
23Seth Kinman: California hunter (1815-1888)
24Rudolph D'Heureuse: The Mojave Road
Transportation
25Eadweard Muybridge: California Dry Dock, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
Capturing movement
26Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments
San Francisco Earthquake (1868)
27Earthquake: San Francisco (1868)
San Francisco advertising album (1880)
28I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880)
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906)
29USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906
30USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers
Pictorialism in California
31William Dassonville: Trees
32Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes
Ansel Adams and the American perception of sublime nature
33Ansel Adams and Straight landscape photography
34Ansel Adams: Yosemite
35Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946)
36Ansel Adams: Hills Brothers Coffee Can
37Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
38Edward Weston: Point Lobos
39Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes
40Edward Weston: Trees
The Great Depression
41Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
Internment in California
42Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War
Street photography
43Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography
44Max Yavno: California
Architecture
45Julius Shulman: Architecture
46Richard Misrach: San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge
Ed Ruscha and the Artist's book
47Ed Ruscha: Self-published books
48Ed Ruscha: Royal Road Test (1967)
49Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip (1971)
50Ed Ruscha: Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles (1967)
Interpretations of landscape
51Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974)
52Robbert Flick: Trajectories
Aerial photography of California
53William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia
54David Maisel: Oblivion
Contemporary culture
55Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture
56Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home
57Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers
58Norma Quintana: Forage from Fire (2017-2020)

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